The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-07-02
VICTORIA REEGNs FIFTY
YEARS.
Great Jubilee in Honor Of tine
Queen of Great Britain
and Empress of
India.

and Empress of
India.
Fifty years ago, the 10th Of this
month, Princess Victoria at the age
Of Is was wakened from slumber in
the dead Of night to be crowned as
Queen of Great Britain, King Will
liam having died She was young
and beautiful and at once was the
idol Of the English people Her
predecessors had been either tyrants
or imbeciles, and the whole nation
hailed the coronation Of this maiden
queen with bursts Of delight. And
at no time in her long eventful reign
has this warm affection Of her peo-
pie grown in any degree cold. But
the Queen by her prudence and fore
sight in affairs of state, has caused
this love to be reinforced by the
greatest confidence in her ability,
and so she is the object of veneration
by her people.
At the fiftieth anniversary of her
prosperous reign England has re-
echoed with one grand jubilee. All
classes and all parties vie with one
another to pay honor to their COM
mon sovereign. All the civilized
nations of the earth send their CON
gratulations and tributes of good
will. London was one immense
pageant Of splendor. The royal pro
cession was the largest and most
brilliant in England's history. The
Queen entered upon her fifty-frst
years reign with even more auspi-
cious omens than when she was
crowned.
And well indeed may the English
people respect and honor this wise
ruler. Always just and merciful,
her highest ambition has always
been to benefit her people, whom she
loves as her children Her reign,
one of the longest in the history of
her realm, has been fraught with
events of Importance second to no
other. AS writer in the Cincin-
natl Post has well observed:
Fifty years ago the first steam
boat had to cross the Atlantic. The
first cable had yet to explore the
depths Of the ocean and bear across
its submerged hills and valleys the
daily intelligence of the world. The
first mower and reaper had to be in
vented. The first sewing machine,
the first perfecting press were still
in the future. The evening world,
outside of the great cities, was light
ed by OK grease and whale oil. Pc
troleum had yet to be found and re-
fined. Chicago was log cabin on
the wilderness shore. Slavery ours
ed half the States of the Union.
California was three or four
months distant from New York.
The Suez canal was still dream of
an enthusiastic young Frenchman
The sound of human voices had
never run along the electrical wires.
"The Mexican war had not been
fought and Texas and New Mexico
were Mexican territory. 1t was not
known that there Vas gold or silver
in the United States, except the
fools gold, of which the enthusiastic
John Smith and his co-colonists sent
home a costly ship load more than a
century before
''ln 1887 there was no Italy. From
Sardinia was yet to come that quar-
tette of great Observation-Disclosures,
Garibaldi, Cavour and Victor Eman-
uel, who, with the aid of Louis Ma
poleon, were, under God, to give
Italy to herself and to the world.
What changes has the world seen
since that June morning of 1887!
What changes will it see before the
almanac makers of the world shall
issue from their 10000 presses the
year book Of 1887? In the last half
century steam has conquered the
ocean. In the next half century will
electricity conquer the sky? The
last half century has seen the spread
of constitutional government
throughout the civilized world"
In the world of letters England
has produced, in these fifty years,
Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray,
Macauley, George Eliot, the Brown
ings and Thomas Carlyle. What
other age can surpass this in this
respect? In the realm of philosophy
we see John Stuart Mill and Herbert
Spencer; among statesmen we have
enrolled Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli
and Gladstone. What other fifty
years Of history can present such
dazzling display of men of genius in
all fields of human endeavor? This
has indeed been England's golden
age. No wonder all England is in
one transport of joy in the celebra-
ton of it. All the world should
echo the shout of the Englishman,
for it is the paan of victory for sci
ence, liberty and civilization.
HOnOrs Heavily Borne.
Hannibal Hamlin is now the only
man alive ever elected to the Vice